Theme: Drawing & Painting

Cost: $35 per one hour of instruction.
Most materials included.

Private lessons by appointment. 

Reserve a time by contacting Archen. Most classes taught on Saturdays, but other days are available.

Please note: Themes are chosen for each session based on student interest with emphasis on building specific skills. If you wish to learn a specific medium or style, feel free to request it, even if it is not listed here.

 

 Sample Classes:

 Beginning drawing - values, tools & ways of seeing

Intermediate drawing - still life, plein aire, figures

Advanced drawing - portraiture, getting form & detail

Beginning Pastel - value study: still life

Intermediate Pastel - color study: landscape

Intermediate Pastel - figure drawing

Beginning oils - learning the tools: still life

Intermediate oils - the process of painting: landscape

Advanced oils - figure & portraiture

Color theory - what & why

Value - capturing form & shadow

Positive/negative space - the power of shape

Composition - still life, landscape & figure

Movement - controlling the viewer's eye

Student's works :

 

Shelby's Still Life in pencil

  

 Kris's First portrait in pastel

 

Value study in ink